Amazing Spider-Man #679.1:
Summary: This issue deals with Peter Parker and his fellow scientist, Uatu(no, not the Watcher... Obviously Uatu is a common name in the Marvel U), being curious about what lays behind the mysterious Lab 6 of Horizon Labs. Uatu has decided a monster was behind the door, while Peter isn't sure WHAT is behind the door, only that it tends to set off his spider-sense. Eventually Peter's curiosity gets the better of him and he changes to his Spidey duds and sneaks along the ductwork, spotting the head of the lab, Max Modell, talking to the sole occupant of Lab 6, Morbius. Spidey hops into the lab when he thinks Morbius was going to attack Max, and the two fight their way into the hallway. Uatu grabs some of his vampire hunting equipment(sure, why not) and goes to help Spidey subdue Morbius. The duo manage to defeat Morbius, but instead of praise, Spidey is lambasted by Max for sneaking around the Labs and attacking Morbius, who was only trying to cure his vampirism. Later on, Morbius is put back in Lab 6, where he continues his experiments, experiments that apparently would soon include the Lizard(!?).
Thoughts: You know, this wasn't a terrible comic or anything, but DAMN did it seem LOOOOONG! I don't know what it was, but it just kept going and going and going... It could have been worse, this could have been a terrible comic that kept dragging on, instead it was just kind of boring. In all honesty, I have NO idea why THIS warranted Point One status...
Score: 6 1/2 out of 10.
Hey look, it's Morbius! He was drinking blood before drinking blood was cool!
It would have been an alright filler comic between arcs or setting up another arc, but the fact that they need to release this as an extra comic this month makes no sense.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly, Jermox! I mean I'm fine with a writer needing some time to get his next storyline together, leading to another writer stepping in to give us a filler/inventory story, but there's really no reason we needed an extra issue of Spidey here... Why not just have this issue come out as issue #670, release it when #670 was supposed to be released and leave it at that?
ReplyDeleteUatu Jackson is the dumbest name ever in the history of comic books. That is all.
ReplyDeleteHA! What more needs to be said? :D
ReplyDeleteExactly, X. Exactly. Anyway, this issue did seem to last forever and nothing really happened which made it last even longer. I mean that all could have been a normal issue like you guys said. I'm assuming Morbius and the Lizard show up to help Pete against the Sinister Six in a few issues...
ReplyDelete"this issue did seem to last forever" I'm glad I wasn't the only one who felt that way... I don't know why, but it felt like I spent an hour getting through this book...
ReplyDeleteHey X, a little clarification please - so the Lizard was working WITH Morbius, or was Morbius experimenting ON the Lizard? I'm going to skip this issue, but just wanted to know whats coming up, thanks.
ReplyDeleteNo problemo, TRobb. I'm not actually sure what the relationship between Lizard and Morbius was actually... Morbius went down into the sewers and saw Lizard eating something and seemed to imply that he'd be using Lizard as a test subject some time soon(Lizard apparently had no idea Morbius was there). It was a bit vague, but it seemed like Morbius was planning on experimenting ON Lizard. At least that's what I got out of this one. I hope that helps a little.
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